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I own a Macbook Pro, and unlike it’s pre-descendants it has some wake from sleep issues described and resolved here (thank you Windley for a fix!). The thing is, if you happen to be in a situation where you need to force your Mac to shutdown, like I had to because of the wake from sleep problem, there is another problem waiting for you after reboot.

I use MAMP for my websites development locally. When I forced my Mac to a shutdown, both Apache and MYSQL servers were started. When I rebooted and turned on my MAMP interface it appeared that they were started as indicated by a green light, but in fact they weren’t. I tried to stop MAMP with Stop Servers button, but nothing happened. I tried to kill the apache server from the Terminal with:
/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/apachectl stop
but ‘httpd (pid 55500?) not running’ returned, meaning that in fact Apache was not running. OK, so I thought I’ll start it with:
/Applications/MAMP/Library/bin/apachectl start
and I’ve gotten an error again:

Permission denied: make_sock: could not bind to address [::]:80
no listening sockets available, shutting down
Unable to open logs

Wow, that sucks! I really hate when my system messes up in the middle of my work day, and just when I thought I will spend an hour or so messing with this problem, the simple solution appeared:

All I needed to do is to click on a ‘Preferences’ button in the MAMP interface, and then click OK. The servers rebooted and started normally.

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As you already know, Apple has released Iphone SDK earlier this month. It is available for free download at http://adcdownload.apple.com/iphone/iphone_sdk/iphone_sdk.dmg but it seems that many users are having trouble mounting the dmg disk image after download. It just says ‘failed to mount’. After redownloading the same error persists. Apparently there is a cached version of the 2.1GB file that is corrupted, and if you’re outside the US, it’s most likely that you will be affected by this error. The temp solution is to download the same file from torrent: http://thepiratebay.org/tor/4066811/iPhone_SDK

EDIT: Apparently, the new revised SDK is now available for download from Apple, so hopefully the case is closed.

Ladies and Gentleman, Girls and Boys, I have finally and officially moved to my new Macbook Pro. I have had it since January, and moved from my PC almost 2 months later. I couldn’t get a hold of Mac OSX fr quite a while, and now I think I’m beginning to like it.

I, as a programmer, couldn’t afford to transfer to MAC immediately and waste time learning OSX as I go, so it took me a while to explore and understand the OSX.
Once I was used to not having both my backspace and delete key, and not being able to move around the text using my usual Win keyboard shortcuts - learned the OSX way, I begun to feel like being at home. You don’t get all the tools right from the box, and after learning from other users’ experience, I’ve installed Quicksilver, Witch, Little Snitch, muCommander and some other apps that made my work flow uninterrupted.
So far it’s cool. The only thing that bugs me is windows clutter, and I’m trying to find my style of work using the Expose and Spaces. Oh, I must mention the Parallels app! It’s just too cool. It allowed me to install WinXP for IE 6 & 7 debugging. The only thing I miss is the ability to install 64 bit Vista, but managed to do so using the bot camp.
Now I have all the things that I need. We’ll see in a while will the Mac earn the right to have it’s nice apple sticker supplied with Macbook Pro on the back window of my car!

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